European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Tuesday november 15, 1968 the stars and stripes Page 25 air Force football Hill s suspension upheld for title game Bubuc Syfox suit writer the rockets will play in sunday s Safe title game without their All Star Quarter Back. Tor Hill. His suspension from the football team will continue for the remainder of the season i. Cot pal Paloncy Rhein main s Public affaire officer said monday. The rockets will thus Start Tony Smith at a a for the third straight playoff game when they visit . Champion Lakin Heath at noon sunday. Hill was suspended two weeks ago after leading Rhein main to an 8-0 regular season. He missed the rockets Continental sports conference semifinal Victory Over Sembach and their Csc championship Triumph Over Ramstein saturday. The question remained whether Hill would return for the Safe final. He heard the answer no monday from the base commander col. Tom Han sen. -.-,Hill also heard he can play next year. Ill probably Start working out in january the quarterback said the ouster of Hill a senior airman reportedly concerned a drug test. He would t comment on that monday. Matoney said in a statement that an investigation into Hill s trouble revealed an infraction that is normally handled through non judicial or administrative action. Since information Efthi Type is protected under the privacy act it is inappropriate for further Hill revealed he was also lined and Given extra duty for his the quarterback said it s something to team Hill. 22, from so Jubenville Ohio played at the University of Akron from 19b4 to 86. He joined the air Force last March and landed at Rhein main in july. His 53-percent passing for 711 Yards and seven touchdowns sparked the rockets to their first unbeaten regular season since 1969, with Hill out. Smith took Over and passed the rockets to a sweep of the Csc playoffs. Hill was on Rhein main s sideline saturday while Smith passed for one touchdown and ran for another in the rockets 31-15 Triumph Over Ramstein. That gave Rhein main its seventh league championship. Now the rockets 1 Mare trying to Complete their fourth perfect season. They went 7-0 in 1969, to Oln 64and7-0in 5l, the rockets Are scheduled to Fly to Lakenheath Friday. Hill said he might ride a bus saturday to Lite rockets do Safe title Dale since 1973. They re going All the Way said Hill the same Way it s Tor 11111 sacked Tor Safe championship . Champion eagles flying with Flynn again Bidav Odiehl . Bureau Raf Lakenheath England John Flynn hobbled into practice Mon Day. It was that right leg the one that Only two Days earlier launched the la Ken health eagles into sunday s noon Safe championship Here against the Rhein main rockets. It was the Sec Ond year in a Row the 21-year-old Safe All Sta soccer midfielder and football kicker was the unlikely almost reluctant hero. Last year he " in booted four Field goals to beat the upper hey Ford sky Kings 18-13 in the . Championship game. In last saturday s final he did it again this time with a 20-yarder with 29 seconds left to frustrate upper heyford3-0. Flynn who was raised 17 years of his life near Dublin Ireland won t take All of the credit. It just happened that i was the last person to touch the Ball before it went Over said Flynn a Crew chief on the mighty of to Ltd fighter bombers at the 48th tac fighter Wing. I Don t feel like a hero. It s a team ,.,-. Flynn came to the Eagle last year just about As Green As a person could be said his coach. Jimmy Barber. Barber saw potential. The hades previous kicker was also a product of the base s soccer squad. In Ireland Flynn grew up playing soc cer and also played As a free kicker in the National sport of gaelic football. Last year he went out there basically unskilled Barber said. After a few games and a few misses he started to gel the hang of it. I put him in there knowing he would miss a few but they weren t important Field goals bar Ber said. I wanted him to get some Field learning was sometimes Tough. Flynn said lie had to re adapt his style to the different shaped bad. He Kichlu soccer style with the top inside this foot. He got plenty of advice. That was hard too. Last year i had 00,000 people try ing to teach me How to kick the bal and i just told them to leave me alone he said. I m the Only one that this year Flynn kicked 25 pats and seven Field goals in 12 attempts. Barber believes Flynn could kick on the collegiate level. Flynn a s-foot-8, 165-Poundcr, said he keeps in she pc by running and Bicy cling everywhere he goes. Last year he combined them with swimming and entered and won his first entry in a triathlon at the base Flynn booted the opening Kickoff of the 1987 Safe title game at Pitburg. After that he stood around because the eagles lost 29-210 the Barons. With Lakenheath winning the . S american division again and defend ing its league title Flynn gets another shot in Safe s biggest football game. He has a Chance to match Field goal prowess with Rhein main s Gary Wal lace a Csc All Star. Flynn was a . All Star in 1987, and came through in the Safe All Star game booting a 35-Yard Field goal and an extra Point in the . S 20-16 loss to the Continental sports conference. Sunday s contest does t have Flynn too worried. Therapists at the Hospital say their daily treatments this week will Render his injured thigh of. On game Day. And if it s not. That s of Loo. Back in Ireland when his dad Wai teaching him soccer basics he Learned he had la kick Wilh both feet at practice Mon Day he was doing just that if pressed to do it. He said he can put the Ball through the uprights Wilh his left fool from 40 Yards out. Wilh a healthy right foot ply in said he s most Cut Active inside 45 Yards. He said he has kicked at least one 52-Yard or at practice but he d hate to have to face such a distance at game Lime. If he had his druthers he d rather not be faced Wilh kicking another game winning Field goal at All despite his championship record Sims far. I Don t look Forward to it he said. And i know we d All rather it did t come Down to West Point brings Gridiron ground by Chris Carola West Point , a the Arm in army has been missing for years leaving just they the shape of a Wishbone which happens to be the offence of Choice among America s Mili tary academics. -.--. Army 8-1, takes on Boston College 2-7. In Dublin Ireland saturday at 12 30. the . Military Academy where statues of ration Eisenhower and Mac Arthur cast their Stony gaze upon Tomor Row s military leaders you would t expect anything but a Strong ground attack to flourish. A and flourish it Dors at the expense of. The passing game. The cadets have passed just 39 times in seven games this Isacson putting the team dead last in passing offence among the nation s major College football teams in fact. Army runs the football so much that the team s wide receivers jokingly refer to themselves As the wide sometimes Well kid at a wide receivers meeting and say yeah we re plan Ning on throwing 10 times this game " said Junior split end scan Jordan the learn s leading receiver with eight catches for 235 Yards and three ads. But army s Wishbone offence is no joke. Its 377 Yards per game average ranks third among the nation s lop run ing teams. Nebraska 420.4 is first air Force 399.3 is second and Oklahoma a perennial run oriented Power is fourth with 361.4, r.-, Navy in its second year of running the Wishbone is 17th with 250.4. Air Force which began using that offence in 1980, is 40-17 since Wishbone advocate Fisher de Berry took Over As head coach in 1984, it was the Falcons Success that led army head coach Jim Young to switch to the Wishbone which has revitalized a team that staggered through the 1970s and Early 1980s. \. The cadets were 2-9 in 1983, Young s first season at West Point. Since Young installed the Wishbone in 1984, army has gone 34-18-1. Including this year s t i record after a 24-19 Victory Over Vanderbill of the Southeastern conference last saturday. Army appears to be in line for a Sun bowl berth against Sec Power Alabama. For Young the decision to go with the Wishbone was a matter of logistics. As he Points out the military Way is not one where you carry extra weight around those 280-Pound linemen most major colleges boost of Aren t military Academy material since those same behemoths would someday have to squeeze them selves into tanks planes or ships. For example. Army s offensive Tine averages 248 pounds per Man or about 40 pounds less than Michigan s. The Small or quicker linemen Art perfect for a Wishbone attack but a passing game won t succeed without those big people up front Young said. In the Wishbone the offensive line. Blocks Are Cut off blocks. The Ball is handed off quickly so you Don t have to hold your blocks Young said. So it figures that if you re not As big and Strong As somebody the option is the Way to go. And Ihu greatest Ponon offence is the triple option or the wish Bone because of the three backs in the knows what he s talking about. Consider these statistics the cadets arc 22-0 when they pass six times or less in a game and 31-4 when they pass nine times or less. When forced to throw More than nine passes they Are 3-14--1.olio Leone is inc team s lop passer hitting id of 25 attempts for 249.Yards and two touchdowns he was intercepted twice before losing his -. Starting Job to Sophomore Bryan Cwi Ijams. Who is just 4-for-10 passing with 129 Yards two interceptions and one to my Willians May never have to worry about a sore Arm but it s not his Arm that interests army. Me Williams legs have carried him id 400 Yards Rushing on 64 attempts a 63-Yard average. An sports television pro bowlers tour Kodak open tape tuesday kk40p.m
